Qubee is a wireless broadband internet provider that aims to provide affordable and reliable internet access to underserved communities in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other parts of Asia and Africa. The company was founded in 2007 and uses WiMAX technology to deliver broadband internet services through various residential and business packages. Qubee faces competition from other internet providers but sees opportunities for growth in emerging markets that lack reliable internet access.

1. Assignment on Qubee
Qubee is a new service providing fast, reliable and competitively priced broadband internet to
residential and small business customers across Pakistan and Bangladesh . they believe that
everyone should be able to enjoy trouble-free access to the internet and the world of
opportunities that it brings. They are aim is to make a magical internet experience available to
everyone, everyday, without exception.Qubee is the brainchild of a group of global telecoms
professionals who saw that a new technology called WiMAX could really change the internet
experience for millions of people worldwide.
General Company Description
Company Overview
Qubee isthe customerfacingbrandof Augere,the wirelessbroadbandbusinessfoundedin
2007 by the formerCEO of Orange, Sanjiv Ahuja.Ithasa missiontoprovide 'broadbandfor
all' and isworkingto bringavailable,affordable andaccessible broadbandinternetservicesto
Under servedcommunitiesworldwide.Qubee startedtheirjourneyinPakistaninJuly2009, covering
the four majorcitiesPakistan:Karachi,Lahore,IslamabadandRawalpindi.Qubee hadalsostarted
theirbusinessinBangladeshinOctober2009 andexpectingtolaunch servicesinUganda,Tanzania,
Rwanda,and Indiain2012 and iscontinuingtopursue spectrumacrossAfrica,AsiaandSouth East
Asia. Augere,BanglaLion&Bracnetobtainedlicensesfromthe BangladeshTelecommunication
RegulatoryCommission(BTRC) on18 November2008 to operate BroadbandWirelessAccess
(BWA) servicesona nationwidebasisinBangladeshusingWiMAXtechnologyata cost of 215 crore
Taka ($32 millionUSD).The companyofficiallylaunchedtheirservice onatrial basisin Bangladesh
on 22 July2009 and subsequentlylaunchedaservice forresidential andbusiness customers in
October2009.

2. QUBEE at a Glance:
–visita Qubee store
Vision and Mission of Qubee
Vision
The internetisone of the most liberating,excitingfeaturesof lifeinthe 21st century. Whatever
customer’sinto – music,news,views,video,information,chat,contact, research,forbusiness,
pleasure oreducation –Qubee thinkcustomershouldbe able to enjoyuninterruptedaccesstoit,
whereveryouare,wheneveryouwant.

3. Mission:
inordertoachieve service excellence.
reliable internet connectivity.
service.

4. Departments of QUBEE
HR practice
Administration and Human Resource: As the name implies, this department has three
major divisions. The Administration division is responsible for Contract, Legal and Protocol &
Government affairs. The Purchase & General Maintenances is responsible for Purchase &
Support and Estate & Properties, Maintenance & general security. The Human Resource
department is responsible for procuring future employees according. This department is also
responsible for maintaining the database of all employees, leaves, attendance, health care
and related fields of employees.
Administration and Human Resource
Although Qubee is a new company with a small group of employees but they are keen to
manage their employees through HR practice. Qubee has the 4 layer distribution of
employees. Currently they have 130 enthusiastic employees to operate their company. The
head of the company is CEO and under him they have functional managers who are senior
managers, managers, assistant managers. Respectively senior executive’s and executive’s
works under the functional managers. Though these 4 layer human resource distributions
Qubee create synergy between their employees and make their collective effort much more
effective. For recruitment employees Qubee is using EN ROUTE recruitment agency and
other some recruitment agencies to get efficient employees.
Marketing
Qubee marketing team is working nicely. Marketing department has three sub departments.
These are….
1. Product Development
2. Branding
3. CSR/PR

5. Product Development
This department is responsible for find out the innovative features that can attract the existing
and potential customers. Product development is one of the key departments in the company.
While developing new packages and tariff plans this department has to keep in mind the profit
and cost issue. Under all these constraints the department has been producing exciting and
new features which ultimately attract customers .Product team always tries to come up with
different types of products by considering peoples need and wants. Product teams introduce
Gigaset, Dongle, for the customers. Gigaset has the power to capture the frequency more
compare to Dongle. So Qubee provide Gigaset where frequency is bit poor and Dongle for
people who want mobility. Product team design their product according to the customer
wants.
Branding:
The brand department of the company deals with image of the brand to the customers. It
basically helps the brand to portray its intentioned image to the potential target group. This
department along with the Marketing Communication department deals with the promotional
activities. As Qubee is very new organization and WiMax is a very new concept that’s why
Qubee have to give too much effort and promotional activities to let the people know about
their product and services. Branding is another sub-department of marketing. Branding team
is trying to promote their qubee product. They have organized different events to promote
their product. At first they do a campaign in different universities, which worked a lot. At
present they are not branding their product extensively but they have a plan for extensive
branding. Qubee is now giving advertises to different renowned news papers in Bangladesh
and they are also giving advertisement to the different website to promote their product. They
also giving advertisement in the Radio like Radio Amar, Radio Foorti etc.
CSR/PR:
Qubee has another sub department called CSR/PR department. Though they are not doing
so many CSR activities but they are planning to engage in CSR activities. Qubee does
different sorts of public relation activities to promote their product in the market which involves
different University campus campaign. They are offering campus package especially for the
students and they are arranging different campus campaign to sell their product. They are
also arranging different concerts to grab the attention of the customers. 2.10 Sales and
Distribution
Qubee sales and distribution team has five sub departments. These are…..
1. Direct Sales
2. Corporate Sales

6. 3. Tele Sales
4. Distributor
5. Retail Shop
Direct sales team handles the home users and SME. They try to make the product available
to the corporate and single or home users. In Dhaka city there is more than 50,000 SME. So
Qubee targeted those SME and the direct sales team works with those organizations.
Corporate Sales team works with the corporate clients. Some renowned companies are our
corporate clients. They are…….
1. American Embassy
2. Standard Chartered Bank
3. BRAC Bank
4. World Bank and so on.
There is a separate office for the manager of corporate sales who is also responsible for
corporate customer relations. Corporate customers are given high priority in terms of sales
and also in terms of after sales service. Of course this is due to the high usage and need for
good long term goodwill with such corporate clients. This department however deals mainly
with sales to corporate customers and maintenance of relations with both current clients as
well as scouting out potential new corporate clients, whereas the after sales service and other
issues are dealt with by the customer services operations section of the company.
Distributor makes sure that qubee product is available in the market. They get commission
on modem and bandwidth price.
Tele sales team sale qubee connection by making call to the potential customers. They have
some customer group from the business corporate world. For selling to those people they
adopt telemarketing approach Qubee is distributing their product through their own outlet and
third party. They have their own outlet in Gulshan 2 at Casablanka Store and they are using
Transcom as third party to distribute their product. They have also given exclusive right to
some computer accessories selling company which are located in IDB to distribute their
product.
They are also selling their product through telesales in some special cases. Qubee have
build experience booth in different places to

7. Product and Service Overview
Packages:
Qubee offerstwotypesof packagestosatisfythe demandof the customers:
i.Pre Pay
ii.PostPaid
Qubee Pre Payoffers:
WithPre payCustomerswill getfastandreliable internetfromQubee ata greatprice.Enjoyup
to 512 KbpsspeedwithQubee Pre Payanduse itat home,workor play.

8. Qubee Post-Payoffers:
Qubee introducesrange of newpackagestosuitcustomer’smonthlyneed.Be itspeed,volume;
Qubee hasthe solutionwhichisfastandreliable.Qubee offers8GB, 12 GB, 18 GB and Sky
solutionforall three speeds.
CurrentlyQubee isoffering50%discount onthe POST-PAYpackages.POST-PAYpackages
includes:

9. SWOT analysisof Coatsinbrief:
Strengths
process
service
Weaknesses
rate
Opportunities
person’scareerinSalesand
Marketing.
connectioncompany.
Threat
-Internet
Qubee isa newcompanyprovidingfast,reliableandcompetitivelypricedbroadbandinternet
servicestoemergingmarketsaroundthe world.Theybringsthe latesttechnologytoprovidea
mobile andwirelessconnectivitywithfaster,easilyaccessibleandataffordable cost.Qubee
posesthe greatopportunityinthe market.Theyare alsomakingnew marketingstrategiesand
providingqualityservice toensure theirpositioninthe market.UsingQubee we believe that
everyone shouldbe able toenjoytrouble-freeaccesstothe internetandthe worldof
opportunitiesthatitbrings.ThoughQubee hasavastopportunityinBangladesh.Itstill hassome
problemswhichmustbe solvedassoonaspossible,whichare

10. onlacking
If these problemsare solvedthanwe hope Qubee will be able tomake itinno time.
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Seniorproductmanager,Qubee.